Alice Rohrwacher

I love to read, to go to the movies, to walk, to speak with people, to go to the theatre.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I do movies because I trust the collective experience. Maybe this is the main reason why I'm doing a movie.

— Alice Rohrwacher

You make a movie not because you feel different, but because you feel exactly the same as those people who will watch…

— Alice Rohrwacher

With a short film, you're able to do some experimenting and still stay within formal guidelines.

— Alice Rohrwacher

To work in that realm - where the imaginary exists and is real, where the past and the present meet, where life…

— Alice Rohrwacher

Children are nowadays very fluent in telling their own stories; they use social media all the time. However, very few people ask…

— Alice Rohrwacher

The tragedy of 'Lazarro' is about people who have the illusion that they are fighting for the poor, but in fact they…

— Alice Rohrwacher

My references are very broad, and my films have been nourished by me, myself, my imagination, and my dreams. My memory has…

— Alice Rohrwacher

When you see something very beautiful that's real, like a flower, it seems fake. And when you see a beautiful flower handmade…

— Alice Rohrwacher

My job is very close to what an archaeologist does: giving meaning to things that happened in the past.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I've lived a lot with people who speak different languages.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I know that if you taste real food, you can feel it. Inside a living story, you feel the difference. If I…

— Alice Rohrwacher

The movies that meant a lot to me were ones I saw when I was like 16, 17 years old, but of…

— Alice Rohrwacher

What I'm after is making films that are alive and that are full of life and that constantly have something new to…

— Alice Rohrwacher

Being able to look with the eyes of a foreigner is maybe the best way to see ourselves.

— Alice Rohrwacher

In my career, I've said 'no' many times. I am often offered to direct a film from someone else's screenplay.

— Alice Rohrwacher

Lucrecia Martel is a director I admire very much, especially 'La Cienaga.'

— Alice Rohrwacher

We grew up in the country, without much access to film. The fact that we didn't have any real relationship to movies…

— Alice Rohrwacher

All my movies actually come from a long time ago.

— Alice Rohrwacher

Of course, when you start to work, it's hard to find time for other things.

— Alice Rohrwacher

For example, people will tell me, 'I always knew that I was watching a film.' Well, good, that's great. I am trying…

— Alice Rohrwacher

Although we can study and analyze films, they have their own autonomous force and mystery, like a hive, of processing the nectar…

— Alice Rohrwacher

I feel it's my duty to tell the story not of an individual but of a community.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I'm unable to think of a story as a personal story, I always have to think of a collectiveness, of someone who…

— Alice Rohrwacher

Life itself is a great source of inspiration in terms of how much humanity there is out there.

— Alice Rohrwacher